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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement? (www.forbes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” ...

When he’s not tweeting about e/acc, Verdon runs Extropic, which he started in 2022. Some of his startup capital came from a side NFT business, which he started while still working at Google’s moonshot lab X. The project began as an April Fools joke, but when it started making real money, he kept going: “It's like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.” ...

On Twitter, Jezos described the company as an “AI Manhattan Project” and once quipped, “If you knew what I was building, you’d try to ban it.”

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

former Google engineer.

Of course. At this point whenever I read something with the phrase former Google engineer I'm just gonna assume they're doing something terrible.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

q: how do you know if someone's a former google engineer?

xoogler's everywhere, a: AT GOOGLE WE USED TO HAVE A WAY TO...

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah fuck as a xoogler I do this. Everything I do is terrible (see my advent of code snippets) and I frequently refer to things that existed in the google ecosystem.

[–] m@blat.at 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@swlabr As a ten year veteran of the SRE mines I’ve always tried really hard not to do this, but I did once leave a job partly as a result of the CTO justifying a decision with “But it says here in the SRE book that that’s the way they do this at Google!” and completely ignoring my protestations that god no, that certainly wasn’t how we did it at least in my bit of SRE.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh GOD that is kafkaesque. It's been too few jobs since leaving the G for that to happen to me yet, but I'm sure I'll get there one day.

[–] m@blat.at 5 points 1 year ago

@swlabr To be fair to the authors, they found that pretty horrifying too.

[–] grumpybozo@toad.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@m @swlabr Tangential technical q: would not an SRE which came from the SRE mines be better referred as “refined ore?”

[–] m@blat.at 3 points 1 year ago

@grumpybozo @swlabr We're more of an exclusive ore, I like to think.